Conventional Wisdom

(Historical Notes: Okay, I can say with absolute certainty that THIS page only got its photo background after having already been online for a week or three… although it’s in a totally different building than the one where this picture-taking actually happened.  Also, the final version of the comic inadvertently suggests that the two of us are, like, eight feet tall.  Clearly, I had a lot to learn about properly scaling these background pics.)